REPUBLICANS: Rolling

REPUBLICANS
Rolling
From the rainstorm at Abilene until last
week, Dwight Eisenhower's public appearances were dogged with
disappointments. Sometimes the speech was good, but the crowd was poor,
and sometimes vice versa.

Last week Ike was rolling. As soon as he entered the South, he began to
get the kind of crowd response that his friends had hoped for since his
return from Europe. The South may not contribute any electoral votes to
Eisenhower, but last week it contributed something that may be more
important: it helped restore Eisenhower's stature as one of the two or
three figures whom this generation...